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Happy world Tapir day!

Tapirs

These animals are ecologically very important because they disperse seeds with their feces as they move from one location to another.

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Owls

Owls don’t have eyeballs. They have eyes of course, but not spherical in shape like you or me, but more tube like. These tube like eyes are held rigidly in place by bones called sclerotic rings. Because of this, owls have to move their entire head to get a good look around since their eyes are held in place. However, their eyes are not totally immovable, but only so slightly that the term “nearly immobile” can be applied. To combat this, they adapted the ability we all know and love to move their head 270 degrees.

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Rhinoceros Hornbills

Rhinoceros hornbills' golden-yellow horn (called a casque) is thought to act as an amplifier to communicate with each other in their forest habitat.

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Happy bat appreciation day everyone!!!

Happy National Bat Appreciation day!!!

Bats pollinate many plants! 

When fruit bats poop, they spread seeds and regenerate forests! 

In some places, Bats are responsible for 95% of new growth!

Most North American Bats eat insects, including pests!

Each year the save people an estimated 3.7 billion in reduced crop damage and pesticides! (please don’t use pesticides)

Bats keep our habitats healthy and we can and should return the favor. 

Avoid roost sites to help stop the spread of the deadly white noise syndrome. 

Go pesticide-free to help protect bats immune systems. 

Install bat boxes to make a nice home, especially if roost sites are scarce.

Bats benefit everybody, so lets make sure they hang around!

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Bearded Barbets

Toucans and woodpeckers are barbets' closest relatives. they all nest in tree cavities, and the arrangement of their toes allow them to climb tree bark

These birds primarily eat fruit; figs are a favourite. They eat fruit whole and regurgitate seed pits later. Consequently, bearded barbets are important for seed dispersal.

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Red-Legged Seriemas

Red-legged seriemas will lie on the ground with their wings, tail, legs and neck spread out to absorb as much of the suns heat as possible. they are often confused for dead.

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Horned Guan

When horned guan chicks hatch, they have two bumps on their head that eventually grow together into one horn.

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West African Gaboon Viper

The West African gaboon viper's two inch (5cm) fangs are the longest of any venomous snake.

Extremely calm in nature, the gaboon viper rarely bites, even when stepped on. If disturbed, it will warn potential predators by forcibly exhaling air through its nostrils

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Timber Rattlesnakes

Timber Rattlesnakes survive the cold by brumating, which is a form of hibernation in some areas, many snakes - up to 100! - gather together to keep warm.

Timber Rattlesnakes and copperheads are pitvipers, which means they have a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eve and nostril on either side of the head.

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Im a bad asexual this was yesterday but happy international asexuality day to my fellow aces!!

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!

You are valid you are loved and you are celebrated! Go pet a cat or something! eat some food! drink water!

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Chinese Alligators

Chinese alligators are the smallest of the two alligator species, with males averaging 5 feet (1.5 meters) and females four and a half (1.3 meters).

the Chinese alligators blunt teeth are perfect for crushing shelled animals, like clams and snails. Their diet also includes insects, fish and the occasional small bird or mammal.

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Oats, specifically rolled oats and instant porridge oats, are okay for ducks to eat!

Some other things they can eat which isn't in the original post is corn, peas, chopped grapes, broccoli and chopped greens are also good for them!

Hope this helps, friend!

Its Almost Waterfowl Season!

And here is your reminder to not feed them bread

Bread has no nutritional value to ducks, yet it makes them feel full and takes place of their natural diet. If we constantly feed ducks bread, they’ll end up lacking essential nutrients and with a range of problems, one of which is angel wing. The high calorie nutrient-deficient diet causes wing deformities and hinders flying. And, in some cases can stop ducks flying completely. It also shortens their life span.

So please, if you want to feed ducks/waterfowl, go out and buy some proper feed.

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Horned Screamer

Aside from their strange horns, these birds also possess some interesting anatomy below the surface. Inside their bones and skin are tons of tiny air sacs that reduce the weight of these large birds, which is thought to help them soar long distances without using muscle energy. These air sacs sometimes collapse simultaneously when the horned screamer takes off, creating a loud crackling noise.

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hello friend!

do you have any facts about ground parrots? Kākāpōs are cool :)

Thank you!!!

On another Kakapo kick again I see? here you go buddy.

When it comes to birds, kakapos are at the top of their weight class. Adult males weigh more than four pounds (2 kilograms), and they're about two feet (. 6 meters) long. On average, males weigh about 4.4 to 8 pounds (2 to 4 kilograms) and females weigh 2.2 to 5.5 pounds (1 to 2.5 kilograms)

Kakapos like many parrots are quite long lived. They can live as long as 90-100 years with an average life span of 60 years.

Male kakapos have a large thoracic air sac which they are able to inflate to make their loud booming noises. If the air is still enough, the sound can be heard from as far as 3 miles (5 kilometers) away.

Hope you like 'em! Have a good day friend.

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hi pal, you should read up on the Horned Screamer!!! its a bonkers bird that i really love! if you got facts to drop, i'd love to hear 'em :))

Hiya! They really are some interesting birds, thank you for bringing them to my attention!

Here are some interesting facts I found;

Over the course of their lives, these birds grow long, white spines of cartilage in the middle of their foreheads. Some birds possess horns approaching six inches in length. The spine is brittle and is known to snap off if it grows to be too long, but it does grow back eventually.

While their horn is harmless, the Screamer certainly isn’t. On each wing Screamers have a bone spur, which they use to do battle with each other, generally during mating season. Scientists have even found pieces of spur broken off and lodged in other birds' chest like shrapnel.

Horned screamers pair for life, or for at least several years. Pairs stay together throughout the year, seeking isolation in marshy areas in late winter and early spring to trumpet in duets.

I got one more but I'll save that one for a separate post ;)

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Lots of people are reblogging saying peas work as well and since this is an older post from my blog I should have updated it but yes! Peas, corn, chopped grapes, and other foods are good for them as well!

Its Almost Waterfowl Season!

And here is your reminder to not feed them bread

Bread has no nutritional value to ducks, yet it makes them feel full and takes place of their natural diet. If we constantly feed ducks bread, they’ll end up lacking essential nutrients and with a range of problems, one of which is angel wing. The high calorie nutrient-deficient diet causes wing deformities and hinders flying. And, in some cases can stop ducks flying completely. It also shortens their life span.

So please, if you want to feed ducks/waterfowl, go out and buy some proper feed.

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Its Almost Waterfowl Season!

And here is your reminder to not feed them bread

Bread has no nutritional value to ducks, yet it makes them feel full and takes place of their natural diet. If we constantly feed ducks bread, they’ll end up lacking essential nutrients and with a range of problems, one of which is angel wing. The high calorie nutrient-deficient diet causes wing deformities and hinders flying. And, in some cases can stop ducks flying completely. It also shortens their life span.

So please, if you want to feed ducks/waterfowl, go out and buy some proper feed.